Ieng Sary, founded Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge with Pol Pot, dies while on trial

By , on March 14th, 2013

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Ieng Sary, who co-founded Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge movement in 1970s, served as its public face abroad and decades later became one of its few leaders to face justice for the deaths of well over a million people, died on Thursday morning. He was 87. His death came during the course of his trial with two other former Khmer Rouge leaders by a joint Cambodian-international tribunal. Lars Olsen, a spokesman for the tribunal, confirmed his death. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Ieng Sary, founded Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge with Pol Pot, dies while on trial